"The First Day of Spring Should Not Be Spent Behind Bars in Iran," By Elise Auerbach
This year we ask activists to remember talented physicist Omid
Kokabee, women’s rights activist Bahareh Hedayat, student activist Zia
Nabavi, human rights attorney Abdolfattah Soltani, journalist and
Kurdish rights activist Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand, trade union activist
Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, and the seven leaders of Iran’s Baha’i community.
All are unjustly imprisoned. Many of them are ill and in urgent need of medical attention being denied to them by the authorities.We insist that the authorities release them immediately and unconditionally.
Our friends from Scholars at Risk
have shared with us their plans for taking the Nowruz action. They are
taking photos of five SAR staff members each holding their cards
addressed to five different prisoners of conscience. Each photo will be
incorporated into three-part collage graphics (photo of staff member,
photo of prisoner, and a short bio of the prisoner with the call to
action) which they will share via social media over the five days
leading up to Nowruz.
We encourage everyone to take pictures of themselves with their
Nowruz cards and post the pictures on Facebook page and we'll add them to our website photo achive.
